Alice Chamblin

Alice Chamblin (5 March 1880-17 October 1923) was a women's rights activist from the United Kingdom who was one of the suffragettes that turned to violence in the years preceding World War I. She was arrested in 1906 for murdering a policeman in York, and she died in 1923.

Biography
Alice Chamblin was born on 5 March 1880 in York, Yorkshire, England in the United Kingdom. Her father Herbert Chamblin was a bricklayer, and her mother Mary Stowe was a seamstress. Alice Chamblin was raised in a society where women were not allowed to vote, and she became an activist for women's rights. Chamblin became a radical in this cause, and was responsible for some acts of violence in the campaign for female voting. Along with other violent suffragettes, Chamblin became a terrorist. In 1906, she murdered policeman Rudolph Cardigan in York when he was putting a stop to a riot in the streets by women, and she was arrested by the police. Chamblin was imprisoned in York, and she died in prison on 17 October 1923.